Four poems from Blueshift Road are in the Alien Swimsuit issue of Fell Swoop: “Identity as Finnish Tango,” “Blink,” “Newfangleness,” and “Sugar Beach.”Vive le Swoop, xJD!
What is the working title of the book?
R Is the Artichoke of Rose
Where did the idea come from for the book?
From a collage of mine, R Is:
What genre does your book fall under?
Poetry. Sub-genre: minimalist.
What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?
Elmo and India.Arie in a musical about the letter R.
What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?
R is the artichoke of rose.
How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?
I’ve been writing short-short poems for many years, publishing them in such journals as Fell Swoop, Peter O’Toole, Quill Puddle, and Unarmed. Eventually the little critters coalesced into something greater than the sum of their parts.
Who or what inspired you to write this book?
Minimalist poetry by other poets, from the epigrams of Martial to the pithy gems of Aram Saroyan.
What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
Illegal pet activity, my pugilist grandmother, black bleach.
Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?
R Is the Artichoke of Rose seeks publisher seeking R Is the Artichoke of Rose.
bounty from the sea
Continuing a recent post about my breast cancer, this collage is another of the death’s heads that started popping up in my collages and some of the poems in Sonnets following my diagnosis four years ago. I didn’t think until after the collage was finished about the significance of the two masks under the wings: breasts, either cleansed of the disease or drained of life.
Thanks to Piotr Szreniawski for sharing Poemicstrip.
“bounty from the sea” first appeared on the cover of Fell Swoop 86.
Camille Martin
Posted in collage, visual art
Tagged breast cancer, Camille Martin, collage, death's head, Fell Swoop, Piotr Szreniawski, Poemicstrip
Rogue Embryo
Rogue Embryo 